Hard case. Notes of the surgeon
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Voned the finalists of the National Book Award and was published in more than 100 countries
What is the book of Atula Havande, a practicing surgeon and a well -known popularizer of science, is a brilliant, bold and incredibly fascinating narrative about the everyday life of a doctor who is dealing with life and death, forced to make decisions sometimes in situations when science is unreliable, Information is limited, and a person is a person. Speaking touching, piercing stories from his practice, the author frankly speaks of serious problems and restrictions on modern medicine, about the riddles of the human body, about how good doctors become bad, about the successes and failures in the work of the surgeon, about therapeutic errors and about what This is happiness when it is possible to save the patient"s life.
Quotes: “Ultimately, the main subject of my interest is practical medicine in the everyday life of people: what happens when simplification of science faces such a complex phenomenon as the life of a particular person.”
Uncertainty is the main state of medicine, and the wisdom of both patients and doctors is manifested in how they cope with it.
“Looking inside the human body, I realized that a person is a cross between a hurricane and an ice cube: in some relations there is a perfect secret, but in others - with sufficient scientific study and a thorough study - he is completely known. However, to think that we have reached the limits of human knowledge is as stupid as calculating that someday we will know everything. ”
For whom: the book can be interesting to both doctors and the widest circle of readers who are interested in the ethics of the relationship of doctors and patients, riddles and problems of modern medicine
What is the book of Atula Havande, a practicing surgeon and a well -known popularizer of science, is a brilliant, bold and incredibly fascinating narrative about the everyday life of a doctor who is dealing with life and death, forced to make decisions sometimes in situations when science is unreliable, Information is limited, and a person is a person. Speaking touching, piercing stories from his practice, the author frankly speaks of serious problems and restrictions on modern medicine, about the riddles of the human body, about how good doctors become bad, about the successes and failures in the work of the surgeon, about therapeutic errors and about what This is happiness when it is possible to save the patient"s life.
Quotes: “Ultimately, the main subject of my interest is practical medicine in the everyday life of people: what happens when simplification of science faces such a complex phenomenon as the life of a particular person.”
Uncertainty is the main state of medicine, and the wisdom of both patients and doctors is manifested in how they cope with it.
“Looking inside the human body, I realized that a person is a cross between a hurricane and an ice cube: in some relations there is a perfect secret, but in others - with sufficient scientific study and a thorough study - he is completely known. However, to think that we have reached the limits of human knowledge is as stupid as calculating that someday we will know everything. ”
For whom: the book can be interesting to both doctors and the widest circle of readers who are interested in the ethics of the relationship of doctors and patients, riddles and problems of modern medicine
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Medical Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Series:
Series:-
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00139-094-7
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